English
scanlate
Blend of scan + translate.
A compound of scan + translate
Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan’
Proto-Italic *skandō
Latin scandō ‘to climb, rise, mount’
Middle English scanden ‘to scan verse’
Middle English scanne ‘to mark off verse to show metrical structure’
English scan
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
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Latin trānsferō ‘to transport, carry across, translate’
Latin trānslātus
Anglo-Norman translater
Middle English translaten ‘to transport, translate, transform’
English translate
Today it means
verb To process a scanlation; to scan and translate (a foreign-language comic) in order to distribute to another language.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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